Aishwarya Rai may be the star attraction at the red carpet, but it was three top notch Bollywood Khans — Shah Rukh, Aamir and Salman – who dominated the film market at the ongoing 67th Cannes International Film Festival with buyers queuing up for their forthcoming films.
SRK’s ‘Happy New Year’, directed by Farah Khan and co-produced by Gauri Khan and Karim Morani, presented by Yash Raj Films; director Rajkumar Hirani’s ‘P.K.’, which stars Aamir Khan in the lead, to be presented by Disney India-UTV; Sajid Nadiadwala’s Salman-starrer directorial debut ‘Kick’, presented by Disney India-UTV and a few biopics were with buyers and sales agents at the Cannes Film Market.
These Khan films are being readied for release in the last quarter of the year.
Having said that, it is India’s lone entry ‘Titli’, directed by Kanu Behl and produced by Dibakar Banerjee, in the official Un Certain Regard Section, which is the talking point and also a top contender for the Palme d’Or this year.
Anurag Kashyap, a favourite from India, did not make it to the festival, but his new film ‘Bombay Velvet’, which has Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma and Karan Johar in the lead roles, received a positive response for Fox Star Studios India.
Besides the biggies, small production companies from India too managed to get a tight grip on the Cannes Film Market with the launch of a dozen new completed films and a few fresh production announcements.
“It is a different India now than what I saw six to seven years back,” said Hollywood-based Indian producer Ashok Amritraj, chairman, Hyde Park Entertainment.
“The new Indian filmmakers have changed the face of Indian cinema and its global footprint,” he added.
The endeavors of Indian filmmakers also grabbed the attention of Bobby Bedi, managing director, Kaleidoscope Entertainment, a regular at the festival for over a decade, and he couldn’t stop himself from saying a few good words for the new brigade of filmmakers.
“This year the Indian producers and directors were very focused and matured than ever before,” said Bedi, who announced his directorial début ‘Lajo’, a big screen adaptation of Ismat Chugtai’s short story, which was extremely controversial for its time. Read more on msn.
Khan-starrers, biopics wow buyers at Cannes
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